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Heterobranch Sea Slugs s.l. (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Southern Ocean: Biodiversity and Taxonomy [PDF]

Diversity
The Southern Ocean, located between Antarctica and the southern tips of South America, Africa and Australia, encompasses an immense area across the southern Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans with no clearly defined limits.
Manuel Ballesteros, Alex Hopkins, Miquel Salicrú, Matt J. Nimbs   +3 more
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Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs. [PDF]

J Anim Ecol
1. Visually hunting predators drive the evolution and maintenance of bold visual defences, including aposematic signalling. Such visual signals must be encountered by predators in lighting conditions where the perception of colour patterns is possible ...
van den Berg CP, Hassler GW, Blomberg SP, Wilson NG, Suchard MA, Cheney KL.   +5 more
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Prey species and abundance affect growth and photosynthetic performance of the polyphagous sea slug Elysia crispata

Royal Society Open Science, 2023
Some sacoglossan sea slugs steal functional macroalgal chloroplasts (kleptoplasts). In this study, we investigated the effects of algal prey species and abundance on the growth and photosynthetic capacity of the tropical polyphagous sea slug Elysia ...
Paulo Cartaxana, Luca Morelli, Elena Cassin, Vesa Havurinne, Miguel Cabral, Sónia Cruz   +5 more
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Prevalence and Photobiology of Photosynthetic Dinoflagellate Endosymbionts in the Nudibranch Berghia stephanieae

Animals, 2021
Berghia stephanieae is a stenophagous sea slug that preys upon glass anemones, such as Exaiptasia diaphana. Glass anemones host photosynthetic dinoflagellate endosymbionts that sea slugs ingest when consuming E. diaphana. However, the prevalence of these
Ruben X. G. Silva, Paulo Cartaxana, Ricardo Calado   +2 more
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Sea Slug Mucus Production Is Supported by Photosynthesis of Stolen Chloroplasts

Biology, 2022
A handful of sea slugs of the order Sacoglossa are able to steal chloroplasts—kleptoplasts—from their algal food sources and maintain them functionally for periods ranging from several weeks to a few months.
Diana Lopes, Sónia Cruz, Patrícia Martins, Sónia Ferreira, Cláudia Nunes, Pedro Domingues, Paulo Cartaxana   +6 more
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Cladobranchia (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) as a Promising Model to Understand the Molecular Evolution of Photosymbiosis in Animals

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Symbiosis with photoautotrophic organisms has evolved in various species and even whole animal lineages, which allowed them to directly benefit from photosynthesis.
Marcellina Rola, Silja Frankenbach, Sabrina Bleidissel, Corinna Sickinger, Alexander Donath, Jörg C. Frommlet, Carola Greve, João Serôdio, Angelika Preisfeld, Jenny Melo Clavijo, Gregor Christa   +10 more
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Photoprotection in sequestered plastids of sea slugs and respective algal sources. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2015
Some sea slugs are capable of retaining functional sequestered chloroplasts (kleptoplasts) for variable periods of time. The mechanisms supporting the maintenance of these organelles in animal hosts are still largely unknown.
Cruz S, Cartaxana P, Newcomer R, Dionísio G, Calado R, Serôdio J, Pelletreau KN, Rumpho ME.   +7 more
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Kleptoplasty: Getting away with stolen chloroplasts.

PLoS Biology, 2022
Kleptoplasty, the process by which a host organism sequesters and retains algal chloroplasts, is relatively common in protists. The origin of the plastid varies, as do the length of time it is retained in the host and the functionality of the association.
Sónia Cruz, Paulo Cartaxana
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Comparison of sister species identifies factors underpinning plastid compatibility in green sea slugs [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015
Heike Wägele, Sven B Gould, Peter Jahns   +2 more
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Functional kleptoplasty in sea slugs: [PDF]

, 2023
Einige der 500 bekannten Sacoglossa-Arten können in ihrem eigenen Cytosol Chloroplasten photosynthetisch aktiv halten. Dieses als funktionale Kleptoplastie bezeichnete Phänomen ist eine spezielle Form der Photosymbiose und kommt in Tieren nur in ...
Sickinger, Corinna, Kodžoman, Katarina, Clavijo, Jenny Melo, Christa, Gregor   +3 more
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